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The United Farm Workers (UFW) union had some 30 flag-waving picketers protesting on French Camp Road Tuesday afternoon at the Ace Tomato Company plant to demonstrate their discontent with the company's failure to support a proposed labor agreement contract.

LATHROP – The cause of the Monday morning accident resulting in a Mossdale Elementary School student being airlifted to the University of California, Davis Medical Center by a REACH helicopter is still under investigation.

It took only about 20 minutes for Ripon, Manteca and Lathrop-Manteca fire departments to mobilize Sunday after a priority call for their Office of Emergency Service (OES) response to the 19-square-mile Ponderosa wildfire that broke out mid-day on Saturday.